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Joseph

Real
Name: Unrevealed Identity: Secret Occupation: Adventurer Other
Aliases: None known Legal Status: Unrevealed
Place of Birth: Unrevealed Marital Status: Unrevealed Known Relatives: Magneto (Joseph was his clone)Base of Operations: The Xavier Institute, Salem Center,
Westchester County, New York State Group Affiliation: X-Men First Appearance: X-MEN (first series) #327

History: The villain known as Holocaust rampaged through
Avalon in an attempt to kill Magneto and his followers. Avalon
was destroyed, and Magneto, still comatose, was saved by then-Acolyte
and former X-Man Colossus, who used an escape pod to crash to
Earth. Ultimately, however, Magneto's body was lost. Magneto
was recovered and restored to health by his first recruit for
his Brotherhood many years ago, Astra. Astra also created a
clone of Magneto in order to have it kill him, but Magneto escaped,
and the clone was lost, amnesiac

The
clone was found, sick with fever, by small children who belonged
to the Holy Sepulchre Orphanage in Guatemala. Sister Maria de
la Joya of the orphanage nursed him back to health, but he proved
to have no memory of his past. One of the orphans who had found
him, Migdalia, gave him the name Joseph. Over the following
months Joseph displayed the superhuman ability to manipulate
magnetic forces. Sister Maria suspected he might be the mutant
terrorist Magneto, who had recently vanished, despite the fact
that Joseph seemed to be in his twenties, making him younger
than Magneto had been. However, she was willing to give him
a second chance in life.

At one point criminals captured Sister Maria and the children
in order to force Joseph to aid them in fighting law enforcement
agencies. In rescuing the hostages Joseph slaughtered their
captors. The children, who had grown to love Joseph, were horrified,
and he knew he had to leave. Sister Maria told him about the
team of mutant adventurers called the X-Men, and Joseph left
for the United States to seek help from them.

The X-Men believed Joseph to be an amnesiac Magneto but nonetheless
allowed him to join their team. Like Magneto, Joseph has grown
quite close to team member Rogue. Joseph's subsequent encounter
with Magneto's former minions, the Acolytes, convinced him that
he had indeed been Magneto.

However, recently Magneto has reappeared and made another bid
for political power by creating another Earth-wide electromagnetic
pulse and then merge with the so-called magnetosphere to gain
ultimate power. The X-Men, Joseph and Astra confronted Magnteo,
and Joseph sacrificed himself to stop Magneto's schemes, an
action which left Magneto without his powers.